Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16

[Nuri Jawad <lkml@jawad.org>]

> no problems here with pppoe, kernel is 2.6.17-rc1-mm1, ppp 2.4.4-b1.

Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described?
The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had 
been mostly idle. But that was the longest time between failures. Can you 
test with one of the 2.6.16 kernels I tried (latest was .9)? Can't say 
for sure if CPU load is a factor, load on the connection seems to be.

After using 2.6.15.7 for another 5 days now with some more stress 
testing, I can assure that 2.6.15 definitely does not produce any 
dropouts on this machine.

For now I'll try to reproduce the effects on my second box (AMD64/nf4).
I'd be happy if someone could give me some hints on which patches I could 
try to revert as the changes to ppp between the two versions look fairly 
harmless. For the first time in 8.5 years, I cannot use a 'stable' kernel 
release and there is really nothing special about this system.

Regards,
Nuri